Bowen Zhen

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AI

A Practical Guide to Building AI Agents ↗

OpenAI's guide and resources for building AI agents, practical patterns, tool use, and best practices.

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero ↗

Andrej Karpathy's video course building neural networks from scratch, from micrograd through GPT, with hands-on code walkthroughs.

Distributed Systems

Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction ↗

A counting service built on Netflix's TimeSeries Abstraction for distributed counting at scale with low latency; covers eventually consistent vs best-effort modes and API design.

Social

The 5 Levels of Agentic Software ↗

Post by Ashpreet Bedi on X.

Software Design

Design Patterns ↗

Catalog of design patterns (GoF and more) with explanations, structure, and code examples in multiple languages.

UI

Refactoring UI ↗

Refactoring UI is a practical guide about how to design beautiful user interfaces without relying on a designer.